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NHS: Drugs

Asked by Ben LakePlaid CymruDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 13 January 2025UIN 22055

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the retained margin element of the NHS drug tariff.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The adequacy of medicine margin that pharmacies are allowed to retain, with medicine margin being the difference between how much pharmacies are reimbursed and how much pharmacies were charged by suppliers, is currently being considered as part of the wider funding for the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework.

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